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DfE multi-academy trust league tables: Who are the best and worst performers?

The Department for Education has today published its own “league tables” for multi-academy trusts, fulfilling a manifesto pledge and promises by ministers for more transparency over the academies programme.

But the government said by using a value-added measure of pupil performance, both current performance and improvement over time, will give schools and groups “time to improve while reacting in time to avoid chronic failure that irredeemably damages any child’s education”.